Reports on the formation of the Storage Performance Council (SPC) by a group of storage technology firms to develop an industry-standard storage performance benchmark in the United States. Names of some of the founding sponsors; Cooperative multi-vendor initiative; Comment by Al Wilson, chief...

Predicts the future of the network attached storage (NAS) technology in the storage market. Factors that hinder the adoption of NAS as the primary storage backbone for enterprise clients; Technologies developed by NetaApp and Scale Eight for NAS system; Other vendors developing products for the...

Looks at data storage companies in San Diego, California. Inclusion of Internet protocol technology developed by Okapi Software; Dot Hill Systems Corp.'s production of equipment that will be marketed under the Sun Microsystems label; Financial performance of companies such as Overland Storage,...

Examines whether some of the most popular computer storage media available in the Australian market are worth their prices. Importance of backing up files; CD-R storage; CD-ReWritable discs; Raw storage cost of Jaz and Orb media; Zip drives. INSET: About Price Watch..

A method is described which enables two computers to access a common memory area. One computer will be able to read and write to memory and will arbitrate over bus access. The other computer will be able to read memory only. Both computers will be able to select various RAM chips in the common...

Presents an economic analysis of the Computer Storage Devices Industry as of January 2001. Overview of the current state of the sector; Factors affecting its financial health and how insiders are reacting to those issues; Recent history; How demand for the products has changed and what is...